René-Louis Baron

René-Louis Baron (9 February 1944 – 20 May 2016) is a French inventor, author and songwriter. He was 14 years old when he played for the first time on stage as a jazz clarinettist. Later, in 1978, he began in Paris a career as a solo singer.

In 1980, he began to use computers to record his music for films, advertising, large companies, theatres, singers and art galleries as well as his song-poems.

In 1989, he, a self-taught eclectic, began his own research into algorithmic composition and thus, musical artificial intelligence. In 1998, he filed the first patent for automatic musical composition at the National Industrial Property Institute in Paris.